The Dutch food and product safety board (Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit, or NVWA) has barred 180 poultry farms from sending their eggs to market because they may be contaminated with the pesticide fipronil. Additionally, the NVWA has warned consumers not to eat eggs with the code X-NL-40155XX, as these contain enough fipronil to present “an acute danger to public health.” The pesticide is used to control lice and fleas in poultry. In the Netherlands, it is banned in the poultry sector. The NVWA has said in a statement that it is currently testing eggs, hens and chicken manure at several dozen farms for traces of the pesticide.
On its website, the NVWA states that although data on fipronil content in eggs, chicken and manure is still lacking, “the first results indicate that fipronil is still evident in eggs, months after it is administered.” The World Health Organization has classed the pesticide as “moderately hazardous.”
Source: Food Ingredients
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